Bed Bug Rash And The Odour Of Bed Bugs
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: allergy, bed bugs, disease, environment, health, home, home improvement, hotels, house, insects, other, outside, pests, travel, UncategorizedThere is a increasing chance that the rooms you take in hotels will have bed bugs. I am not talking about a cheap room in a flop-house, but accommodation in any hotel in the world. Expensive suites and first-class hotels are also as likely to have bed bugs as the doss-house.
This is of course very bad news for the traveller and tourist. It is bad enough being bitten when you are paying for a room in a hotel, but if there are bed bugs, you could end up taking them home and creating your very own infestation too.
So, in essence, you have to know how to recognize whether your room has bed bugs or not and what you might do about it.
Bite marks are obvious indications, but they are not infallible because not everybody reacts to bed bug spittle, which causes the lumps and itchiness. Not just that, but some people do not feel any reaction for a couple of days, so you might have been bitten in the last hotel you stayed.
If you do see bite marks, bed bug bites are normally round, red-pink marks that look like the end of the rubber on a pencil. They will also lie in a line or crooked line, but not random like mosquito bites. More like flea bites, but larger.
If a lot of bed bugs bite you in one night, and that is commonplace, because if a bed bug finds a victim, it gives out pheromones to inform its friends that you are there, you might gt a rash. The rash may be large and deep red and might link all the patches of bites, say on your chest or back.
However, if you have been bitten it is already too late. When you go into your room, take a good sniff. This almost certainly will not help either as hotel staff know to spray air freshener in a room moments before a guest goes to inspect it.
Bed bugs give off a, sickly, musty, ‘filthy’ odour, which, people say, when smelled, is never forgotten. The more bed bugs, the stronger the smell. It may take a few hours before the air freshener wears off and uncloaks the smell of bed bugs. You could attempt sniffing near the skirtings.
If this does not disclose bed bugs, put a bar of soap in a little water and lie on the bed for 30 minutes. Then, jump up quickly, grab the soap and pull the bedclothes back. if you see any bed bugs, dab them up with the wet soap and you have evidence to show the hotel manager.
Whatever the results of your due diligence, when you leave the hotel on the final day, unpack your luggage and look for bed bugs; then place all your used clothes in sealable plastic bags. In that way , you reduce the chances of taking any on your trip onwards.
Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on several subjects, but is currently involved with bed bug covers for mattresses. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.
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